as some would say, since the Creation).rnThe effect on the study of ancient originsrnhas been catastrophic. Indian activistsrncan protest all they like at scholarlyrnconferences proposing new theories ofrnearly American settlement, but withrnNAGPRA behind them, they can directlyrnaffect—or rather, sabotage —therncourse of scientific discovery. The effectrnof NAGPRA is evident from a series ofrncases in which scientists...

fessor Rorty’s class was supposed to be arnsurvey of philosophy, I supposed I mightrnfind some truth mixed in with the mirth.rnMy hope was disappointed, for therncourse was really nothing more than anrnintroduction to skepticism —not onlyrnabout religious belief, but about the veryexistencernof reason and truth. Advertisedrnas “philosophy,” it was, in fact, anh-philosoph’.rnAs a student, I...

teaching. Wasn’t Mill on to somethingrnwhen he said: “A general state educationrnis a mere contrivance for molding peoplernto be exactly like one another. . . . It establishesrna despotism over the mind”?rnSo if monopoly of public funding andrndenial of choice and consent sum uprnAmerica’s public school impasse, whatrnshould we do?rnOne short-term answer is just to...

Making Warrnby Clyde WibonrnWake Island (1942)rnDirected by ]ohn FarrowrnB&W, 88 MinutesrnGo Tell the Spartans (1978)rnDirected by Ted PostrnColor, IH MinutesrnSaigon: Year of the Cat (1983)rnDirected by Stephen FrearsrnColor, 106 MinutesrnAmericans learn their wars primarilyrnthrough the movies. Who, exceptrnfor the few who were actually there, canrnimagine World War II without thinkingrnof John Wayne? The popular medium,rngives...

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton Williamson, Jr.rnHaving It AllrnYou could say liberalism is about squaringrnthe circle, if it weren’t for the fact thatrneven liberals don’t really expect to accomplishrnthis feat: They aim at creatingrnthe impression they can effect the impossible,rnand lying afterward about their successrnin having done it. hi between comesrnan impressive array or sequence of...

discovers that Huber’s conservatism is ofrnthe cornucopian —i.e., having-it-all—variety,rna secular version of Christianitywithout-rnthe-Cross. hideed, it is largely arnrestatement of the smelly intellectual corpusrnof the late Julian Simon, which Huberrnhas ill-advisedly sought to resurrect.rnHuman beings are not the problem, Huberrninsists, they’re the soluhon; wealth isrnthe most effective birth-control device:rnnational populations decline with increasedrnprosperity. “There is no...

Modern Editions of Classic Works for Readers TodayrnTwiiigh; ofrnAuthorityrnTWILIGHT OF AUTHORITYrnBy Robert NisbetrnForeword by Robert G. PerrinrnWe had thought, or our forefathers had, that modern liberalrndemocracy would be spared the kind of erosion and decayrnthat both Plato and Aristotle declared endemic in all forms ofrnstate. Now we are not so sure.” So wrote Robert Nisbet...

Italy and the United States Share a Common Story:rn1860’srnForged in civil wars:rnThe War Between the States andrnthe Risorgimentorn1930’srnOvercentraHzed by strongmen:rnFDR and MnssohnirnTodayrnEach country faces seriousrnchallenges from iregional andrncultural separatists.rn’ ^ – ‘ Xrn.session w irn.pccialrnII IDCUNrnon the greatestrnwork ot nioclernrnItalian literature,rn.lessandro .lan/.oni”srn[ ProHK’.s’.s/ Sfjosirn(The Betrothed).rnParticipants will stay at the delightfulrnt^otel Asnigo, located on a hilltop...

KDI’IORrnThomas FlemingrnSKKIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, Jr.rnMANAGING F.DirORrnScott p. RichertrnART DIRECTORrnH. Ward SterettrnDESIGNERrnMelanie AndersonrnCONTRIBUTING EDITORSrnKatherine Dalton, Samuel Francis,rnGeorge Garrett, Paul Gottfried,rnj.O. Tate, Michael Washburn,rnClyde WilsonrnGORRKSPONDING EDITORSrnBill Kaiiffman, Donald Livingston,rnWilliam Mills, William Murchison,rnAndrei Navrozov, Jacob NeusnerrnhOREIGN AFFAIRS EDITORrnSrdja Trijl^ovicrnLEGAL AFFAIRS EDITORrnStephen B. PresserrnRELIGION EDFIORrnHarold O.j. BrownrnEDITORIAI, SECRF:IARYrnLeann DobbsrnPUBLISHERrnThe Rockjord InstituternPLIBLICATION DIRECTORrnGuy C. ReffettrnCRGUL.A[‘ION LNAC^.ERrnCindy LinkrnA publication oLFlic...

No doubt, alcohol consumption andrndie lack of a curfew played an importantrnrole in the riots in Quebec Cih’ on JeanrnBaptiste Day in 1996. But this hardK’precludesrndieir political content. Riotingrnhas not been a problem in either QuebecrnCih’ or Montreal on the average Fridayrnnight or on other holidays, only on thernholiday which is a source of both...

the exclusion, including furthering thernlink between procreation and child-rearing,rnpromoting child-rearing in a settingrnwith both male and female models, andrnfurthering the state’s general public policyrnagainst same-sex marriage. However,rnthe court concluded that Vermont’srngrounds for the policy were unreasonable.rnThe court littered the opinion withrncitations to such publications as “LesbiansrnChoosing Motherhood,” “LesbianrnMothers and Gay Fathers,” and “Childrenrnof the Lesbian...

were compelled to finish a budget recentlyrnwith a surplus. (The last federalrnbudget surplus was under Richard M.rnNixon.) How can Trump presimie tornbalance the nation’s budget when thernpublicly traded company that bears hisrnname is highly leveraged?rnIf Trump applied similar leveragernpractices to the federal government, thernnational debt would explode in size. Therndollar would likely fall on foreign...

including those of Father Abraham inrnRichmond in 1865 and Powhatan Beatv’,rna black Medal of Honor recipient. Thernproposed murals were displayed in a civicrncenter, and the public was invited torncomment. After more than 800 peoplernoffered their opinions, the murals were finallyrnapproved. The recommendationrnwas generally well received: A RichmondrnTimes Dispatch poll found that a vast majorit}’rnof all...

THE ROCKFORD INSTITUTE’SrnTHIRD ANNUAL SUMMER SCHOOLrnA classical republic: the American Founders’ dream . . . The armed citizen: fromrnMarathon to the militia . . . The pagan prophets: why Christians should study Greek . . .rn”The Greek Roots of Christendom”rn1-5 August 2000rnspecial lectures:rn”The Art ofWar in Ancient Greece” and “Americas Homeric Period”rnSpecial dinner event:rn”The Natural...

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reemerging as a world power. By the time simplemindedrnAnieriean power brokers are finished counting the Russiansrnout, it will be time for them to go back to warning the worldrnagainst tiie menace of the next Russian empire.rnTocqueville’s comparison of Russia with the United Statesrnhas passed through so many hands that the details have beenrnrubbed off along...

vitation. Bubbling over with the platitudes of democracy andrnhuman rights, our political leaders rain death on the innocentrnpeoples of Iraq and Serbia; repeating by rote the slogans of internationalrnfree trade, they impose criminal embargoes uponrnLibya, Iraq, Cuba, and Yugoslavia, when everybody knows thatrnthe only effect of such embargoes is to deprive simple people ofrnthe necessihes...

tablishment is intact. Not one alliance has been dismantled;rnnot one commitment has been eliminated. On the contrary,rnthe U.S. government has increased gnarantees and deploymentsrnalmost exponentially: American planes bomb Iraqrnaronnd the clock; troops are deployed in Bosnia, East Timor,rnMacedonia, and Kosovo; Azerbaijan is angling for a U.S. base;rnUzbekistan wants militar)’ relations with N A T O...

Real leadership also requires humility. Nobel Prize-winniugrneconouiist F.A. Hayek wrote of the “fatal conceit” of social planners,rnwhich is at work in U.S. foreign policy today. What is thisrnfatal conceit? Tlie belief that Washington has the wisdom andrnabilit)’ to order events in distant societies without regard to history.rnThe belief that one can loose the dogs of...

be cowed or savages to be exterminated. They are imposing arnbird’s-eye view of world affairs in the process, which makes discussionrnof their policy possible only within their odd terms ofrnreference. Try applying the traditional criteria of national interest,rnand yon will be labeled a Buchananite, with all the attendantrn”isms” that will destroy your name and career....

signified, aggressor and vietim, ethnie cleanser and ethnicallyrncleansed, eventnally eliminates the creator and—nltimately—rnthe subject, leaving nothing but the subject’s “signature,” in thernform of bomb craters if need be.rnThis is the “culture” of the artificial world, of post-historical,rntechnological man who has lost his bond with nature, surroundedrnby artificial reality and permeated by it. The “Jamies”rnof this...

able lesson: Never make your protagonist sexually maladroit.rnYou will get nothing but pit)’ing stares from friends and tears ofrnmortifieation from your mother.rnLike my doughtily dysfunctional hero, I did go home, forrngood. And for better. I have written about this at length inrnChronicles and elsewhere, so to nip your “there-he-goes-agains”rnin the bud, I will say only...

mad.” It is almost beyond their ken, past the outemiost hniits ofrntheir understanding, whv someone would not move when “opportunih”rnrears its meretricious head.rnConsider, for instance, the favorite recent movie of the consen’ativernculture-vulture set, October Sky. This is a moving,rnpoignant, funny, wonderfully acted story of a Coalwood,rnWest Virginia, boy whose dream, which we are encouraged tornshare—in...

But our so-called lives kuew joy as well. Wlio can ever forgetrnthe U.S. women’s soccer team? Brianna and Brandi and Mia:rnWlien that winning goal was scored, we cried, too, at least thosernof us who were awake.rnThe soccer ball: that leathery symbol of British imperialism,rntaken up by collaborators in every country that had the misfortunernto find...

AMERIKArn(Beograd, 1999)rnby Matija BeckovicrnSome boys my age in KolashinrnBack in 1950-somethingrnSet off on horsesrnto escape to America.rnThe posse caught them at the edge of townrnhi back of the first privies and pigstiesrnBut if they liad reached the bend in the road and therntiiicketsrnThe conld have easily made it,rnFallen pkimp onto the bosom of America.rnOnly the...

“All the NewsrnUnfit to Print” ignsJ of t!)e ^imesJrnVol. 2 No. 3 March 2000rnWhen two heterosexuals murder a homosexual,rnit is a “hate crime” to bernsplashed over the nation’s front pages forrnweeks on end. When two homosexualsrnbrutally rape, torture, and murder a 13-rnyear old boy—as they did last Septemberrnin Arkansas—it is news unfit to print.rnA 13-year-old...

Washington Post editorial of Decemberrn12, which began with the admission that,rn”in many ways,” Russia had more justificationrnfor intervention in Chechnya thanrn… no, not the United States in Kosovo,rnbut Serbia in Kosovo! The editorial thenrntakes a sharp turn:rnBut whatever sympathy Russiarntherefore might have enjoyedrnfor its campaign it has squanderedrnwith methods that echornall too familiarly those of...

whole thing is blown apart, collapses andrnbursts into flames.”rnFreddie Young’s two most challengingrnachievements were filming the storm inrnRyan’s Daughter and the mirage inrnLawrence of Arabia, histead of shootingrnthe storm with fire hoses and wind machines,rnthe crew filmed a real tempest onrnthe rugged Irish coast. “We were all inrnwet suits,” Young told Lean’s biographerrnKevin Brownlow (who...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter From Turkeyrnby Jeffrey MeyersrnTurkish TallyrnA few years ago, iiiv wife and I set off tornspend a sabbatical year in Spain, butrnthonght we wonld go via Turke-. Thernidea started with a new Swiss “motoring”rnmap that laid ont the highways in firmrnred lines. We also wanted to go to thernAegean islands of Greece. We’d been tornGreece...

professors and intellectuals have to treadrncarefully. In a smart restaurant—with arnFrench-speaking maitre d’, tuxedoedrnwaiters, and flowers on the table —wernhad a five-course lunch for a few dollars.rnOnce more the food and the servicerncalmed our worries.rnSeveral people had told us that thernmain west-east road through Turkey wasrnwell-paved, and much better than thernnorthern road along the Black...

On the return trip, wc arrived in Erzincanrntotally exhausted and fell asleep beforerndinner, too tired to cat in the restaurantrnwith the speedy waiter. After lunchrnin a dubious place the next day, I wasrnstricken with nausea and diarrhea. We finallyrnreached Goreme, southeast ofrnAnkara, in the afternoon. Half dead, Irnwent to sleep for the rest of the...

es in Lesbos and urged us to take our carrnto get across the island. All this seemedrnwildly improbable.rnWe rushed off, once again, to find arnhotel to keep the luggage and get advicernabout taking the car. I asked for a room atrna family-style pension inhabited solely byrnmiddle-class Turks. They said they werernabsolutely full, then kept us...

cioiis as we feared. The waiters served excellentrnfood, the customs officials cooperatedrnin their laborious fashion, the truckrndriver stopped to help, the mechanicrnfixed our Volkswagen. One policemanrngave us gas, another allowed me to escapernafter bashing a car. In a bizarre sortrnof way, our tensions and fears enhancedrnour travels. The bad moments werernmore vivid and memorable than...

stages the subject of that meanderingrndocumentary: The Man of Action, I’hernDevil-May-Care Lover, The CelebratedrnAuthor, and Worst Shot-Up Man in thernU.S. seems to shrivel up and recede intornthe background of modern history as ThernLanguid Nobleman, The Man in thernMoth-Holed Khaki Sweater, The Proprietorrnof the Palazzo Tron Wlio Never Replacesrnthe Blown Lightbulb in the Hallrnand Drives a...

and African stndies; sabers and computers;rnthe past and the future. Such contradictionsrnseem vnder control at the moment,rn\ itli convictions of various sortsrnenjoying respect, or at least tolerance.rnBut such is the modern obsession withrnsafety’ and health that one can imagine arnmovement just to get rid of the old waysrnand old ideas. The feminization ofrnA&M, like the...

its editorial on May 4, the paper reportedrnthat Prodi had been the subject of tworncriminal investigations, both revolvingrnaround allegations of cronyism, abuse ofrnoffice, and conflicts of interest, more orrnless the crimes that brought down the lastrnE.U. Commission. “It is important tornstress that Mr. Prodi has not been foundrnguilty of breaking the law,” the editorialrnsaid. ‘Tet,...

What tliese people have in commonrnwith Prodi’s iiiuch-vannted commitmentrnto Christian vahies remains a mystery.rnNo less of a mystery is how he hopes torn”revive the Chrishan soul of Europe” —rnthe hasic message of his latest book—byrnplaying into the hands of those whose primaryrnobject has always been to destroy itrnonce and for all.rnAlberto Carosa is an Italian...

CHRONICLES’ BACK ISSUES, TAPES, AND BOOKSrnProceedings of The John Randolph ClubrnMR. iCAUFFMAN GOES TO WASHINCITON—Audiotape—Bill Kauffman goes tornWashington and defies the Beltway right by inciting conservatives to “commit placism.”rnHe otfers an antidote to flavorless, esoteric, placclcss modem America in a stirring speechrnthat celebrates “placists” who create k)cal culture—poets, novelists, and painters, as wellrnas football coaches,...

VITAL SIGNSrnHUMORrnInfomercial:rnAn Algorithmrnfor the Webrnby Marian Kester CoombsrnNeii’.s’ Item: “AI Gore helped lead the federalrnresponse to Y2K, hut that doesn’t meanrnhis own Internet operations went hug-free.rnThe computer glitch took a tiny bite out ofrnGore’s campaign Weh site. I’he damagerncame inside his “virtual town hall,” whererna message from a supporter was dated Januaryrn3, 19100. . ....

on in — the water’s fine. Who said,rn”Reading is a pernicious Habit, whichrndestroys all originality of Mirrd?” Yourncan have the answer in seconds by doingrna “find” @ http://www.smartmouth.edu/~rnoboylneogab.html. It was Will Rogers, explainingrnto an interviewer why he neverrnlearned to read. Son of a vaudevillernroofer (see hyperlink to “vodvil” on thernYahoo! Reference:Universe:Life:Terra:rnAnimalia: Mammalia :Hominidae:fiomoSapiens;rnArtforms:Song+Dance;Dead/rnDying:American:Local: Regional :UrbairiTheatredistrrnpage)....

moved by appeals to either mercy or justicern—from the Vatican and the U.S.rnCouncil of Catholic Bishops, and punditsrnand political leaders spanning thernspectrum —our remorseless leaders haverncommitted what will one day rank asrnamong the most horrific war crimes inrnhistory.rnThe cruelt)’ of our policymakers is imderscoredrnb’ the proposed U.N. resolution,rnwhich is designed to delay the liftingrnof sanchons...

plug on the nefarious operation.rnThe Bond fihns have nothing to offerrnin the way of suspense or character development;rnwhat they provide is a ritual inrnwhich ever}’ move is as predictable as in arnJapanese Noh play.rnWhy has this particular ritual so captivatedrnaudiences for 57 years? Other filmsrnhave employed the same ingredients,rnbut never as effectively. The ArnoldrnSchwarzenegger vehicle...

still do feel.rnApted has tried to bring Fleming’srntheme to the foreground in a way that itrnwasn’t in the earlier films. His Bond is arnman of genuine feeling and loyalty, strugglingrnto defeat the dehumanized forces ofrnan uncaring rationalism. Unfortunately,rnApted only partially succeeds; no doubtrnconmicrcial interests prevailed uponrnhim. The film is too cluttered with specialrneffects and stunts...

and revolutionized the field (for goodrnand ill) is more deserving of mention.rnI did not expect the German-AmericanrnFriedrich List to be on A&E’s roll,rnyet his thought warrants our attention.rnBy codifying the mercantilist experiencernthat guided the West to the IndustrialrnRevolution, his National System of PoliticalrnEconomy laid out the policies that notrnonly made America the world’s leadingrneconomy by...

The Hundredth Meridianrnby Chilton Williamson, ]r.rnA Sinner in ParadisernWhite sky, white earth. In the foregroundrna fencehne: three strands ofrnbarbed wire stretehed taut betweenrnerooked posts eut from a juniper forestrngrow ing along the sandstone hogback,rnthe bottom strand running in and out ofrnlow drifts of scalloped snow. The brushyrntips of sagebrush yibrahng on a stiff windrnaboe the...

to Bethlehem. Maxed-out credit cardsrnand nonreligious “seasonal” ones, jazzeduprncarols, intcrfaith prayers, angels thatrnlook like Barbie with wings, Alfred E.rnNewman dressed like Santa Clans,rncelebrities at the White House (at yourrnexpense and mine), Madeleine Albrightrnin the Middle East, cheese balls and rosernwine, double-parked UPS and FederalrnExpress trucks, the ghost of Dickens’ pastrn(Scrooge resurrected as Ronald Reagan),rncomputers with...

Modern Editions of Classic Works for Readers TodayrnTHE STRUGGLE FOR SOVEREIGNTYrnSeventeenth-Century English Political Tracts InrnTwo VolumesrnEdited by Joyce Lee MalcolmrnFor much of Europe the seventeenth century was, asrnit has been termed, an “Age of Absolutism” inrnwhich single rulers held tremendous power. Yet thernEnglish in the same century succeeded in limiting thernpower of their monarchs. The...

Italy and the United States Share a Common Story:rn1860’srnForged in civil wars:rnThe War Between the States andrnthe Risorgimentorn1930’srnOvercentrahzed bv strongmen:rnFDR and MussohnirnTodayrnEach country faces seriousrnchallenges from regional andrncultural separatists.rnA specialrnsession will focusrnon the greatestrnwork ot modernrnItalian literature,rnAlessandro Man/oni’srni Promestii Sposirn(The Betrolliedi.rn••-!t^c’rnParticipants will stay at the delightfulrnHotel Asnigo, located on a hilltop in thernresort town of...

EDITORrnThomas FlemingrnSENIOR EDITOR, BOOKSrnChilton Williamson, ]r.rnMANAGING EDITORrnScott p. RichertrnART DIRECTORrnH. Ward SterettrnDESIGNERrnMelanie AndersonrnCONTRIBUTING EDITORSrnKatherine Dalton, Samuel Francis,rnGeorge Carrett, Paul Gottfried,rnJ.O. Tate, Michael Washburn,rnClyde WilsonrnCORRESPONDING EDITORSrnBill Kauffman, Donald Livingston,rnWilliam Mills, William Murchison,rnAndrei Navrozov, Jacob NeusnerrnFOREIGN AFFAIRS EDITORrnSrdja TrifkovicrnLEGAL AFFAIRS EDITORrnStephen B. PresserrnRELIGION EDITORrnHarold O.]. BrownrnEDITORIAL SECRETARYrnLeann DobbsrnPUBLISHERrnThe Rockford InstituternPUBLICATION DIRECTORrnGuy C. ReffettrnCIRCULATION MANAGERrnCindy LinkrnA publication of...

1970’s, this cross-subsidy contributed tornthe emergence of Japanese auto companiesrnwhich could successhilly competernwith Detroit. Twenty years ago, the sophisticatedrnLibertarians used this Hne ofrnreasoning to advocate massive cuts inrnU.S. defense spending. The cleverestrnLibertarians have always focused on “warrnas the health of the state,” and have appliedrntheir critique to the impact thatrnU.S. foreign policy has had on...